In the second year of Chongzhen (1629), the Lushan River went south again and loaded goods and immigrants near the Pearl River estuary in Guangzhou. It sold some Australian treasure mirrors to the Macau Portuguese merchants and the Ming merchants here.

By the way, this Australian treasure mirror is quite marketable near this stable and prosperous Guangzhou. The Lushan No. 5,000 taels of silver was sold at a price of 5,000 taels per dollar. After buying it, these people added a precious mahogany frame or directly put on the screen, and sold it at a high price of 8,000 taels or even 20,000 taels. This is nothing for salt merchants with a net worth of millions. When it comes to a net worth of tens of millions, it is important to be of superiority to food, clothing, housing and transportation. I have what you have, and I have what you don’t have.

This is of course a means by the merchants of the Ming Dynasty. For Portuguese merchants, if they could ship to Europe, the price was at least 200,000 taels of silver. Venice, which monopolizes glass technology, has never been willing to reduce the price of glass products. The small mercury mirror presented by the Italian king when the French queen got married is worth up to 150,000 gold francs. This is also the only mercury mirror in France, which is much smaller than the Australian treasure mirror, and the clarity of the mercury mirror is far from comparable to the silver-plated Australian treasure mirror.

Because when the Lushan River was heading south, it took a little time to recruit refugees from all over the country and sell some goods near Macau, the victory of Yang He, Hong Chengchou, in Shaanxi, was also spread to Guangzhou through the imperial court report.

Because of the frequent transactions with merchants in the Ming Dynasty, this newspaper of Shaanxi's bandit suppression was also indirectly transmitted to the Lushan No. 1. The role of the imperial court newspaper is equivalent to that of the Central Daily News. In many places, people go to the yamen to copy a copy and take it home to read it. There is nothing wrong with it. For such a faraway place in Guangdong, it was an old news a month ago.

After reading the Lushan Time Traveler, they discussed: "I'm doing a good job, Lao Hong is going to become the second Li Hongzhang."

"Don't say that scum Li Hongzhang is the one who holds military power and has not yet rebelled against the Qing Tartars."

"Li Hongzhang's loyalty to the emperor and patriotism was still the mainstream idea. Moreover, Cixi, the ruler of the Qing court at that time, treated him and Zeng Guofan quite well. Later, during the Yuan Shikai period after Cixi's death, the Qing Dynasty could no longer trust the Han ministers in charge of the soldiers and sent Yuan Shikai home to eat grass. Yuan Shikai met with heroes from all walks of life at home, and the people came to send a little yellow croaker to provide for it, indirectly sponsoring the ** party. When the Qing princes could not stop the ** party bomb, Yuan Shikai's return was a certainty. With the strength of the Beiyang New Army at that time, it was easy to destroy the ** party in the south, but Yuan Shikai was afraid that the Qing royal family would have another cunning incident, so he secretly cooperated with the Southern ** party to overthrow the Qing government. Just like Lin Zexu was a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty, wasn't he a national hero? After all, he had to look at it dialectically." Zhang Leping said.

Zhang Leping said again: "This incident tells us not to underestimate the heroes of the world. Hong Chengchou is a character before or after he joined the Tartars. It is precisely: Zhou Gong was afraid of rumors and Wang Mang respected the corporals. If he died in that year, who would know the authenticity of his life? If Hong Chengchou had better luck, he would not be able to be a traitor in the Battle of Songshan."

Everyone on the bridge here was talking, an old immigrant who was responsible for resettling new immigrants came in to report: "The aides of Wang Dezun, the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, came to see him."

Diplomacy is about the nominal head of state, Jin Sanduo asked Zhang Leping: "Who is this Wang Dezun?"

Zhang Leping turned on the computer and searched the data for a while and said: "Last year, the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi was promoted to the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. He was a madman in the late Ming Dynasty. During his term, he cast more than 500 large and medium-sized Western iron cannons. More than Xu Guangqi built in Beijing. Most of these cannons were later used to suppress bandits or transported to Liaodong to fight against the Qing Dynasty."

Jin Sanduo asked, "That's it for the arms?"

"**Baoshishi. I guess after seeing the imperial palace, I found that the Australian iron ship could not sit at the estuary of the Pearl River."

Jin Sanduo asked: "How many Type 1628 guns and steel cannons are there in Lushan?"

A Ying, who is also the secretary of Jin Sanduo (which is indeed the case that the secretary does something, and the secretary does nothing), looked through the account book of the Lushan number and said, "The current inventory of the 1628 type quick guns of the Lushan number is 2,700. Because it is produced by mechanized assembly lines, the daily output is now more than 350. However, sometimes it is necessary to cast artillery and occupy a crucible, which does not produce fast guns in 24 hours. The Dahuzun steel cannon stock has 107 pieces and the Red Yi steel cannon stock has 26 pieces. Because it is cast as a whole mold, as long as the musket is not produced, the speed of making cannons is quite fast."

Since it was easy to find out the pulse, Jin Sanduo immediately went to meet Wang Dezun's aide.

The whole story is similar to the time travelers on the Lushan Cast, but what Wang Dezun, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, wanted to do the most is to build a new army like Yang He. Although the money in the Guangdong treasury cannot be moved, it is still possible to let the big merchants in Guangdong serve. After all, now She Chongming and An Bangyan are making a big fuss in the northwest and once invaded Sichuan.

Almost all the troops in the south of the Ming Dynasty joined the battle against Guizhou chieftains. Wang Dezun, the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, saw the report of Hong Chengchou and Yang He, thought that if he had such a new army equipped with Australian fast guns and steel cannons, it would be easy to win the battle. Maybe he could go further into the cabinet. The She'an Rebellion has been in trouble for many years and should have been destroyed. Another thing is that Guangdong does not lack money and food, but it really lacks a combat-capital force.

It is rare to encounter Australian ships buying goods near the estuary of the Pearl River to recruit refugees. It is just that when they want to sleep, people will send pillows. But it is still a problem to send people to the Australian iron ship. Wang Dezun wanted to send someone with an official position to go up - but no one wants to go. You, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Wang Dezun, is our immediate boss, but everyone is pushing the matter outside of the responsibility. When you get on the big iron ship to meet the Australians, you can't get off the boat. After all, the Australians don't get off the boat easily. The common people go to buy and sell goods on the boat with profit. Everyone is a cultural person, so they don't lose this part - then Australians don't fall under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty and don't pay attention to the laws of the Ming Dynasty. This time, they really get on the pirate ship, and they can't wash it clean once they have something to do.

Finally, it was an aide in Wang Dezun's mansion who volunteered to negotiate on the Australian iron ship. This aide was called Yayi'an, a scholar in Guangdong Province. The Ming Dynasty was really a single-plank bridge. Yayi'an was also a member of the water. Because he had been in Macau and communicated with local Portuguese people several times, he gradually got Wang Dezun's attention.

Yayian knew that his identity was a errand runner. So when he saw that the Governor General was worried about the personnel of the Australian National Iron Ship, he immediately recommended himself to go to the Governor General General on the Iron Ship of the Australian National Iron Ship of the Australian National Iron Ship of the Australian National Iron Ship of the Australian National Iron Ship of the Republican was a little more important. In the future, he spoke a little more. You should know that the Governor General General of Guangdong and Guangxi was not one or two people, but a group of people, including many juren or officials who retired, and there were even two Jinshis. Relatively speaking, Yayian squeezed into the Governor General of Guangdong and Guangxi as a scholar, and he was considered a polite and polite person.

Yayi'an intervened in Wang Dezun's aide group not only for the sake of making a living, but if the matter is done well, at least he will be given the title of a capable person. In the future, Wang Dezun will definitely arrange a job for him in the officialdom before retiring, and at least he can recommend him to the Imperial College or the next Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. In general, this is also a way to rise, and there is no need to squeeze into the single-plank bridge for the provincial examination.

After getting on the big iron ship, Yayi'an also observed secretly. Since the big iron ship was iron, it should be very hard. When boarding the ship, Yayi'an also knocked on the side of the big iron ship and got this answer. However, after boarding the ship, the deck was soft and soft. The feet felt like they were falling into clouds. Yayi'an felt like she was stepping on a mud ball without shoes under her feet, but she didn't know what raw material the blanket on the deck was made of, which actually had such effects.

Look at the soldiers on the deck, although they are not tall, they are all strong. In this spirit, they already have the same style as the servants of the Ming Dynasty. They are not armoured, but they still have the same round style as the yellow and green mixed with round shapes. They are not as bright as the octagonal helmets of the Ming army. The Lushan can't make nylon fiber bulletproof vests for the time being, but the technical content of the helmet is quite simple and has excellent protective effect on firearm explosive fragments or cold weapons. Just open the mold and cast it, and Australian workers will also use it in the future.

An alloy helmet is only more than two pounds, and a piece of alloy breastplate doesn't have much weight. This is also the ultimate equipment given to the Iron Cannon Team by the Australian Time Travelers.

If these are nothing, then after Yayi'an arrived at the reception room of Lushan, the people below gave Yayi'an a cup of tea and really calmed down Yayi'an. The tea leaves are still tea from the Ming Dynasty, and they are not as top-notch. However, the tea sets used for making tea are made of colorless glass. As for this set of tea sets made of colorless glass, Yayi'an gave them at least a thousand gold.

Although the Westerners also sold glass in Guangzhou, glass has been available in the Ming Dynasty. If we look at it from historical books, glass has been available since the Western Zhou Dynasty. However, glassware in any era is synonymous with luxury life. Most of the glassware in the Ming Dynasty was also for royal families. But just like the Forbidden City used gold bricks to pave the floor, wealthy families could use fake gold bricks to pave the floor. This glassware has been seen by everyone, which made a group of Westerners who wanted to sell glass as gems. (The 59th chapter of the Dream of Red Mansions records that the names of the four maids in the Jia family are mandarin ducks, amber, jade, and glass)

However, in this era, whether it was Venice or the Ming Dynasty, there were only colored glass but no colorless glass. As for flat glass that made large mirrors, according to history, it would have to be invented by the Belgians in the 19th century. Although there were monocular telescopes from the West in this era, the lenses were green because of the iron content. Not to mention the high price, they could not see clearly. In the eyes of the travelers of Lushan, they were purely toys to deceive children.

"The lives of these Australians are really luxurious." Yayian looked at the tea leaves floating in the colorless glass tea cup, thinking that tasting tea in this way was the greatest enjoyment in his life.

After Jin Sanduo checked Wang Dezun's information and came to the reception room to see Yayi'an and sat down by name, Yayi'an also made a request: "Your ship has fast guns, steel cannons, which is something I urgently need in the Ming Dynasty. But can you give it up? I have visited the factory that casts red cannons and muskets in Foshan. A red cannon worth thousands of pounds costs only hundreds of gold. A bird gun only costs a few gold. How can you sell it so expensive?"

Jin Sanduo had already heard this in his ears and asked immediately: "How much does a pound of steelmaking cost in Foshan cost? The alloy steel used in the fast steel casting of the steel cannon guns is much better than that of steelmaking. According to the weight, even if the barrel of the gun is scrapped, you can make money by using it as a result of the steel pipes, so why bother with it here?"

Yayian also knew that the Australians' goods were in short supply and they did not bargain easily. However, there were still ways to take advantage of loopholes and asked: "If you barter, how much can you get?"

Australians need all kinds of products, from brown sugar, porcelain, tea, pig iron, population, cattle and sheep, alcohol, fur, seeds, traditional Chinese medicine, medicine, wood, etc., almost nothing is needed. As for silver, both in the Youth City and Lushan City are now stocked with hundreds of thousands of taels of silver sold in mirrors, and there is really no shortage of silver. Moreover, because the liquidity of Australian banks is very poor now, most people's salaries and salaries are converted from daily necessities and a small amount of silver. For most immigrants, having a full meal and having clothes is already a paradise, and the owner is responsible for building a house and paying wages - although the house price will be deducted from the wages for three years.

Jin Sanduo took out a list: "The first type of materials can be increased by 30% according to the market price in Guangzhou, the second type of materials can be increased by 20% according to the market price in Guangzhou, and the third type of materials can be increased by 10% according to the market price in Guangzhou. Among them, we eat as much pig iron and copper as the first type of materials."

Yayi'an sighed relieved after reading the list. Although this pig iron is also one of the national controlled materials, if pig iron can be exchanged for more powerful Australian fast guns and cannons, I believe the Governor would not be so serious. Only Foshan in Guangdong produces tens of thousands of kilograms of iron every day. You must know that this is only the official output of the Guangdong government controlled the craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty. If you don't have this confidence, Wang Dezun would not be able to take the lead in the trend of casting red barbarian cannons.

This time, when I arrived at Jin Sanduo, I asked: "I don't know how many quick guns and cannons you are going to buy, so we are ready."

Yayian replied: "If the Governor wants to learn to imitate Yang He to build a new army, he needs three thousand Australian fast guns, one hundred Australian big tiger cannons, and the more Australian red barbarian cannons, the better, at least thirty."

"No problem. When your goods are on board, we will barter in batches." Jin Sanduo can still make up the goods based on the inventory of the Lushan, the existing equipment of the iron artillery team and the production speed of the Lushan.

It took some time to complete the arms transaction here. In the middle, the Lushan City went to the Vietnamese and Northern Dynasties because they had to wait for Wang Dezun to prepare the goods. The Northern Dynasties of Vietnam were moored for a few days. There were nearly 10,000 people on the ship now, and the number of people eating horses was not small. Although there were rice in Guangdong, the price was not cheaper than four times that of Vietnam. Moreover, people who traveled through time knew that the rice prices in the Ming Dynasty would become higher and higher in the future, so they naturally would not go to buy food here.

During these days when the Lushan River docked near the Pearl River Estuary in Guangzhou, Hong Chengchou's new army in Shaanxi frequently reported good news. Hong Chengchou's five thousand new army defeated all bandits in Shaanxi, and dozens of bandit leaders in Shaanxi, such as Du San and Yang Laochai, were also cut off several of the peasant army leaders. As for the killings, there were even more.

The new army established by Yang He and Hong Chengchou were still disdainful to kill Liang and make contributions, but they were rebels, so they could not let it go. Yang He wanted to suppress and slap, but the new army under Hong Chengchou was killed too much. After every war, they would not leave prisoners of war to kill them. In Hong Chengchou's memorial alone, the beheadings since the establishment of the new army have exceeded 200,000. For only 5,000 new army, each with an average of more than 40 heads.

The bloody red terror really scared many peasant soldiers. They either changed their clothes and went home to chew the bark, or threw an olive branch to Lord Yang Heyang to accept the government's invitation. Of course, some people were dissatisfied and believed that the victory of the government was bragging. Because most witnesses went to see the King of Hell, in ancient times, there were rumors that were spread by rumors. These people led by Zi Jinliang, Zhang Xianzhong, Gao Yingxiang, Luo Rucai and others to continue to fight guerrilla warfare with the government army.

Because most soldiers in Shaanxi and Gansu mutinied and joined the peasant army, even if Hong Chengchou killed more than 200,000 heads in this area of ​​Shaanxi and Gansu, it still cannot change the situation where there are more thieves and fewer soldiers.

The head of each peasant army was full of bloody contributions. Hong Chengchou was also promoted to the Governor of Yansui in the second year of Chongzhen and was appointed as the Prince's Prince. As for the latest reward, the court was still under discussion. However, it is unlikely that everyone would be promoted to Hong Chengchou as the Governor of Yansui, but it is possible to reward Hong Chengchou's ancestors, such as a rank, family or Yinzi, or even a reward for Hong Chengchou's ancestors.

This naturally made Wang Dezun of Guangdong even more moved. Wang Dezun, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, felt that he might have done his best to be an official, but Wang Dezun also had family and children. If he could become an official, it would be much better than a single-plank bridge to squeeze into the imperial examinations, let alone the court would have to be granted titles after making contributions to the sky. What a glory it would be to get a marquis and a lord to pass on the family. In view of this, Wang Dezun ordered the subordinates to speed up the stocking, and even swept the iron materials in Guangzhou and sent them to the Australian iron ship.

As batches of goods were delivered, the Australian fast guns and steel cannons were also brought to Wang Dezun. What satisfied the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Wang Dezun was that the Australians were quite reliable in doing things. Although they would not bargain, they would not bargain, but they gave half a percentage of the goods.
Chapter completed!